NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee member Farzin Hashemi
"It is important in the U.S. and Europe to take this matter very seriously and make sure the right policy is adopted."
.@bobtorricelli
"If the intent of the Biden admin is to re-engage with #Iran on nuclear talks, they must consider who will be sitting across the table. Zarif? his agents? People who were sent to kill us?"
Amb. Robert Joseph
"For the Biden admin, the verdict should weigh heavily on any relations with the regime. It should dispel any false nostalgia about working with Zarif as a force of influence in #Iran."
.@ambmcg
"I do not know what we have to gain from entering the same agreement. The real problem in the last talks was that #Iran set the terms. That can no longer be the strategy for the Biden admin."
#Iran official identified an undercover agent was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in 2018 & sentenced to 20 years in prison seeing his claim of diplomatic immunity rejected. #Time4FirmIranPolicy bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A court in Belgium convicted Iranian "diplomat" Assadollah Assadi of attempted terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.
Belgian court sentences Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi to 20 years in jail on charges of a bomb plot targeting a 2018 opposition rally north of Paris.
2) -Belgian court stripped #Iran's diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi of his diplomatic immunity
-Bomb was tested in Iran
-Bomb was transferred in diplomatic suitcase of Assadi from Tehran to Vienna.
Nasimeh Naami—18 years in jail
Mehrdad Arefani—17 yrs
Amir Saadouni—15 yrs
3) Iranian diplomat convicted of planning bomb attack against exiled opposition group in France, given 20-year sentence washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
1) #Iran’s “diplomat” Assadollah Assadi is awaiting a ruling tomorrow in a Belgian court his role in a foiled bomb plot targeting an opposition rally in June 2018.
@eu_eeas should stand firm & impose justice as deserved.
3) #Iran is responsible for the attempted bomb attack by a diplomat and several others at an event held by an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018, the civil party’s lawyer Rik Vanreusel says. #EUTime4FirmIranPolicy
#Iran's "moderate" President @HassanRouhani:
-No article of the 2015 nuclear deal (#JCPOA) will be changed.
-No individual (party) will be added to the JCPOA either.
-The Americans should know that to this day they
have been in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Former Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi
-#Iran doesn’t need nuclear weapons to “put an end” to the Zionist entity [Israel]
–However, @khamenei_ir might resort to changing fatwa banning nuclear weapons.
"We haven't... had any discussions with the Iranians, and I wouldn't expect we would until those initial steps go forward," said U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price on the #Iran nuclear deal. #JCPOA
April 29, 2013 #Iran's dictator Ali @Khamenei_ir meeting with a Taliban delegation on the sidelines of the ‘Scholars and Islamic Awakening’ conference in Tehran.
Senior IRGC member:
-[In 1990s] we were in Bosnia as Red Crescent providing military training to jihadists.
-We were w/ Al-Qaeda. They learned our style.
-We established jihadi units w/ [extremists] from across the globe.